Bawh gawdJim "Good Old J.R." Ross, the WWE's lead commentary guy for SmackDown!, posted an update on his blog with a brief mention of the annual work he does voicing THQ's wrestling products. And here is that update!

The next round of THQ voice overs is slated to start within the next week or so. It will be anxious to see who makes the roster for the next Smackdown vs. Raw video game. There has been some internal changes within THQ and it will be interesting to see if it affects the lines we read in announcer mode for the next game.

So unless he's going in to do commentary for the upcoming Legends of Wrestlmania game, that's your confirmation that we'll see a WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2010 at some point. Not that this should come as a surprise. I think it's pretty obvious that such a popular series would continue. More interesting, however, is the talk of internal changes. Could he just be referring to some personnel moves that have him dealing with different folks? Or is THQ planning something larger for its next SmackDown! game?

Wow, they're actually recording new voiceover stuff for this one? I kinda thought they'd just re-use the old stuff like they always do. Who knows, maybe the people at THQ will even realize that the WWE stopped having one "face" announcer and one "heel" announcer around 2003 and that Jerry Lawler no longer screams "YES!" when someone does a low blow.

I would love to play a good wrestling game. They are a blast with 3 other people. Unfortunately, the Smackdown series aren't good games and they keep pumping out the same crap every year. The thing I don't get is that there are good wrestling games out there but they are on the N64. It seems wrestling games get worse with time.

This site has information about games. Wrestling video games are games. Bitching that someone posts information about a game on a video game website is retarded.

There are a lot of trash games based on kid focused TV shows and various other lame cash-in subject matters that I don't approve of, but if said type of game had a news blurb on a games website, I would not waste my time to bitch about it being not news worthy. I simply skip or ignore the article. Whereas some people may find Hannah Montana and various other sources of annoyance entertaining and worthwhile.

I guess the games can't really get any worse :)Some people here are really inconsiderate (cough,cough dtran1212 ), I mean Jeff and the rest of the gang are putting up all of this stuff for free, so if your not interested in a particular feature that they put up, why bother reading it then start bitching on the comments?

The next game is not going to use Euphoria, for a number of reasons. The first one being, TNA isn't actually competition for them, but also, a physics engine like that wouldn't really be suited to something like a wrestling game, I can't even get my head around how it would work or why it would even be needed. But more importantly, it would require THQ to actually put effort into the next game, and as has become painfully clear over the past 10 years, they're perfectly happy to shovel out the same old game year after year and let people buy it by the bucket load.

If you want to see improvements, stop buying the same damn thing every year.

Oh, and for you guys saying that this is news no one cares about..? I don't care about PC gaming, and I know a few others who don't either. I guess we don't need it on this site anymore. REMOVE IT!!!1

I live near J.R's restaurant in Norman, OK. It seems like he's there every once in awhile promoting the the place with a radio station. Maybe next time he's there I might go and get some BBQ. Maybe even get a picture or something.